In our vision, mission and values we’ve tried not to use ‘religious’ or ‘churchy’ language as we know such language can be a barrier to
engagement and conveys little meaning to those who have had no connection with it.

At our core is a deeply held commitment to follow the agenda of Jesus we see set out in the Gospels. In this we see the passionate presence
and activity of God in our world and communities, calling ‘all people and all things’, to become the world that God intends. Jesus uses the concept of the Reign (Kingdom) of God to describe this and
invites us to participate in and with its realisation.

Our Scriptures tell us that compassion (love) is the means and medium for us to participate in realising God’s reign; compassion that
embraces the world, recognises its ‘value and potential’ and the ‘connectedness’ of ‘all people and things’. The first movement of our work is therefore presence and listening, being committed
to neighbour-hoods, local communities of geography, interest and concern. Here we learn with others, seeking the signs of God’s workings with which to join and share. Our work endeavours, within
our local communities, to counter disadvantage, exclusion, injustice and the abuse of the environment and to promote approaches that peacefully subvert the systems and powers that maintain them.
These themes and approaches we see repeated throughout our Scriptures and particularly in in the life and work of Jesus.

We hope in pursuing our mission of ‘growing people and community’ to encourage encounters with the values of the Kingdom that will be
transformational both for us and the people with whom we connect. And that we, in our small and fragmentary way, will participate in realising the Reign of God.